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Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana

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  • Avg 45 min
  • English

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  • S3 · E4
    May 29, 2024 · 38 min

    S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya]

    If we paraphrase McLuhan, today’s medium is the algorithm: how is this universal mediator shaping us as content creators and consumers? How does it feel to be online amid different polarising forces, when consensus reality has completely broken down? Günseli Yalcinkaya, writer and researcher specialising in youth and internet culture, has been immersing herself in the insane hidden pits of the internet to shed light on central tendencies and viral phenomena – from homogenised beauty standards imposed by filters to psyops, military e-girl influencers and heads of nation states who post memes on X – through which our online world is becoming increasingly both mid and weird.

  • S3 · E3
    May 29, 2024 · 46 min

    S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio]

    What exactly is in the images generated by AI? Is it possible to decode training datasets and detect biases that fusion models, such as Dall-E or Midjourney, reproduce? Eryk Salvaggio, researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence, suggests a method that enables anyone to peel off the layers behind the datasets. Exploiting the ghost human labour needed to create images and label them, the full automation of AI dehumanises the representation of the real, reducing it to clusters of pixels rearranged by statistical mathematical models. However, human agency and creativity are nested between the dots of the pixels, and they still give us the power to scratch at the surfaces that algorithms are constantly trying to reproduce. Support us on Patreon or otherwise! RELATED LINKS [Website] Eryk Salvaggio COLOPHON Host: Neja Berger Guest: Eryk Salvaggio Recording and editing: Neja Berger Music and Audio Mix: Gašper Torkar Production: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024 Producer: Marcela Okretič Part of Tactics&Practice#15: (un)real data – real effects Curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf in Domagoj Smoljo) In collaboration with Janez Fakin Janša Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. The post S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio] appeared first on Aksioma.

  • S3 · E2
    May 29, 2024 · 40 min

    S3 [(un)real data] E2: Could We Stop Reproducing a Deepfake Past? [w/ Wendy Chun]

    Predictive models based on big data are founded on the idea that knowing the past enables us to predict the future, but what kind of future are we constructing when the models are based on a deepfake version of the past? Correlation has overtaken causation, while homophily shadows differences across these models that are not only applied in social media platforms’ algorithms, but also in policing predictives or risk assessment systems. We discuss how these practices reproduce bias and generate self-fulfilling prophecies with Wendy Chun, professor of New Media, Director of the Digital Democracies Institute and author of numerous books. Is it possible to exit the default world of endless reproducibility and conceive of a different future from what has been left out in the past?

  • S3 · E1
    May 29, 2024 · 53 min

    S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]

    The rise of computation in the 1950s shifted society to one constructed purely in commercial terms, where selling and buying have become the main social relation and every possible human form of contact is reimagined as a service or a product. What does this imply for the self? When individuals are broken up into parts that are measurable as data streams, the self is quantified and life is understood through numbers, where the ultimate number is profit. Professor of Digital Culture and Network Theory Felix Stalder discusses the ambiguity of data, the limits of computation and what interpretations might exist beyond the world as a set of measurements.

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